Re: Running own servers

[n0oct]

 Joshua Tinnin gamera at pacbell.net wrote on 
 Tue Dec 21 19:56:20 PST 2004
 On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:24:17PM -0500, RL wrote:
 Hi. I currently have a cable modem, but I want to (if it's not too
 pricey) run my own servers including DNS server.  My cable provider
 currently doesn't offer static IPs so I have a dynamic.  How would I
 go about setting up my own DNS? Would I do it through the cable
 modem?
 Wouldn't I have to buy an IP block and be the authority for it? I'm a
 little lost. :)

 You will have problems doing this unless you have a static IP. I don't
 think any cable service offers that. You can run a DNS server on an
 internal network in your case. It's also possible to run a dynamic IP
 resolver service, like No-IP's (dns/noip), but that is far from
 perfect,
 unless you're just doing this for testing. For any real-world purpose,
 you really have to have a static IP and a fully-qualified hostname. I
 have read of people running their own servers for everyday use using
 something like No-IP, but if you're running a mail server, you will
 most
 likely have to deal with mail being rejected because of blacklisting
 (many ISPs block all major ISPs' dynamic blocks from sending to their
 mail servers to prevent spam), as well as reverse dns problems.

While the reverse DNS thing is true, the mailservers can be set up to
use a smarthost and still operate off a dynamic IP address.  Mine do.

--
JS
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Another Moregroupware question. . .

[n0oct]

Currently running FreeBSD 4.10-p2, Apache-1.3.19, php-4 and
moregroupware-0.7.1. 

I have read the previous questions regarding this software [I built it
from ports], but my installation fails setup with:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_id() in
/usr/local/www/moregroupware/include/log.inc.php on line 70

That might make one think that php is either nonexistant or
misconfigured.  I tweaked php.ini according to the moregroupware
handbook, and the output of pkg_info | grep php looks like this:

mod_php4-4.3.9,1PHP Apache Module
php4-bz2-4.3.9  The bz2 shared extension for php
php4-calendar-4.3.9 The calendar shared extension for php
php4-crack-4.3.9The crack shared extension for php
php4-ctype-4.3.9The ctype shared extension for php
php4-dba-4.3.9  The dba shared extension for php
php4-dbase-4.3.9The dbase shared extension for php
php4-dio-4.3.9  The dio shared extension for php
php4-extensions-1.0 A meta-port to install PHP extensions
php4-ftp-4.3.9  The ftp shared extension for php
php4-gettext-4.3.9  The gettext shared extension for php
php4-mcal-4.3.9 The mcal shared extension for php
php4-mysql-4.3.9The mysql shared extension for php
php4-overload-4.3.9 The overload shared extension for php
php4-pcre-4.3.9 The pcre shared extension for php
php4-posix-4.3.9The posix shared extension for php
php4-session-4.3.9  The session shared extension for php
php4-tokenizer-4.3.9 The tokenizer shared extension for php
php4-xml-4.3.9  The xml shared extension for php
php4-zlib-4.3.9 The zlib shared extension for php


So, was gibt's?  If something is missing, it isn't easily determined by
reading the moregroupware handbook, reading the moregroupware
mailing list archives or searching the web.  I had this software working
on a prior incarnation of this machine [6 months ago], but two days
after finishing installing moregroupware, configuring all the users,
etc., a hard drive failed and I had to start over from scratch.

-- 

72, Jim N0OCT
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